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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






2. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






3. The organizational form of a literary work.






4. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






5. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






6. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






7. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






8. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






9. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






10. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






11. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






12. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






13. A poem that tells a story.






14. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






15. The dictionary meaning of a word.






16. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






17. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






18. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






19. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






20. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






21. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






22. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






23. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






24. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






25. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






26. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






27. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






28. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






29. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






30. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






31. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






32. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






33. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






34. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






35. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






36. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






37. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






38. A character struggles against some outside force.






39. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






40. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






41. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






42. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






43. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






44. The time and place of a story or play.






45. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






46. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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47. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






48. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






49. The main character of a literary work.






50. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.